The New Yorker, “James Cromwell’s Civil Disobedience”
He was arrested again a few months later, at the May Day protests in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of other people. Confronting a cop, he felt a baton against his throat, was tossed into a paddy wagon, and spent the night in jail. From his hotel room the next morning, he saw a chaotic […]
Pitchfork, “Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace on the Music of Her Life”
Laura Jane Grace is guiding me through the discography of beloved UK anarchist punks Crass when security interrupts us. A chocolate Lab starts to sniff around the curtains and scattered Christmas lights that decorate a dressing room in downtown Des Moines, Iowa’s Wells Fargo Arena, where Grace’s band Against Me! will be playing in a […]
Mixmag, “In Session: Gorillaz”
I’m proud of everything we’ve done. Being in Gorillaz has shaped me into the woman you see today: a feminist-anarchist- avenging-angel- intellectual-soul- sister-of- mercy. Who also likes cute hamster butts (it’s a Japanese thing, Google it). Continue Reading
LA Weekly, “Tom Morello Is Raging Against More Than Just Trump”
He’s fought for prison reform, raising the minimum wage and farmworkers’ rights. He was a regular presence at Occupy Wall Street protests, and when he uses the term “anarcho-syndicalist politics” in a sentence, you can tell he knows what he’s talking about. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “I tapped Mel Brook’s phone. Please, Mel, accept my belated apologies.”
It was 1970 – I was studying film with Marty Scorsese at New York University – and in my spare time shooting film with a bunch of Anarchist troublemakers known as Transcendental Student. Having shot a load of 16mm film for a film we called Inciting to Riot we needed a secure facility to cut […]
Williamette Week, “The Anarchist Roots of “Antiques Roadshow” Are In Portland”
Here in Portland, we have a long and productive history of anarchists performing vital city functions. I know this because I myself dabbled in anarchism for a brief period in the 1980s. In the months after Walter Mondale’s stunning defeat against Ronald Reagan, I remember feeling like my country had been stolen from me. The […]
Spin, “Rolling Stone Article About American Radicals Fighting ISIS to Become Jake Gyllenhaal Movie”
“The Anarchists vs. the Islamic State,” an incredible Rolling Stone piece published last month, is going to be a movie. The article centered around 27-year-old Brace Belden, an American “punk and pity criminal” better known as Twitter user @PissPigGrandad, who joined Kurdish militia YPG last year to fight ISIS in Syria. (It also followed several other volunteers of varied nationalities.) According […]
The Hollywood Reporter, “Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Espinosa Team Up for Middle Eastern Drama ‘Anarchists vs. ISIS'”
The Rolling Stone article, written by Seth Harp, tells the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists and outcasts who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war. Continue Reading
Variety, “Jake Gyllenhaal, ‘Life’ Director Daniel Espinosa to Reteam on ‘The Anarchists vs ISIS’”
The article tells the true story of a ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists, and outcasts, who are fighting alongside the Kurdish militia, known as the YPG, to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war. Continue Reading
The Weekly Standard, “When Politicians’ Kids Protest, They Say What Their Parents Can’t”
Woody was booked, but not charged, for second-degree rioting in Minneapolis last week. Details from the report of his arrest, first reported Tuesday by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (and updated throughout the week), reveal he’d joined a five- or six-man black bloc, an anarchist tactic now in regular use by anti-Trump agitators seeking to […]